Dwight Schar
CEO, NVR
Innovation:
Value engineering and redefining production model.
Vision:
What Southwest did for the airline industry, Schar did for the volume home building industry. With his entrepreneurial drive, NVR has become a Fortune 500 company and landed at No. 4 on the Builder 100 with 13,326 closings in 2015.
Economics:
Schar’s spirit for hard work and his Midwestern roots could have been the tipping point for creating the value engineering model that offers high-value homes at low costs.